INTERVIEW
"The problem is not the diagnosis, but the treatment." André Grimaldi, professor emeritus of diabetology at the Pitié-Salpêtrière, welcomed with as much satisfaction as caution of the words of Emmanuel Macron, Thursday, during the day of "hospital death". While several thousand health care workers demonstrated everywhere in France on Thursday, the President of the Republic, traveling to Epernay, in the Marne, said that "strong decisions" would be announced next Wednesday. Guest of the Big Evening Newspaper , André Grimaldi, also a member of the inter-hospital collective, admitted that Emmanuel Macron had "heard the anger", but he remains suspicious and asks that there be "no new savings" requested at the hospital by the end of the five-year period ".
"If the hospital collapses, it will cost the company a lot of money"
"We want the hospital to have the means to provide the care that is in the process of collapsing", summarizes the microphone of Europe 1 André Grimaldi, who wrote fifteen years ago a book called Reinventing the hospital public, against the hospital business . "We do not say 'that's it', because the National Assembly has been warned but has voted the budget asking the hospital for a billion savings, so we are worried, people have to understand that if the Hospital collapses, it's going to cost the company a lot of money, "says the doctor. To prevent such a thing happens, "to maintain the activity and meet the programmed costs, it requires a budget increase around 4%, or 1.5 billion euros," he says.